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Ed Slushie

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#1576652
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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An idea I’ve had for a while but don’t think I’ve ever shared: to better parallel the Blue-vs-Blue duel from RotS, have the Skywalker lightsaber be red during the duel on Kef-Bir. (This would also just make the duel more visually striking, I think).
It wouldn’t have to be Red for the whole movie - it could turn red when Rey activates it in the Throne Room (implying that her vision in the vault made the crystal bleed) and then it could turn blue again when Ben gets it on Exegol.
I’ve tried editing this in myself but it’s very tedious - and given how quickly the edit that turns Leia’s Saber purple was made, presumably there are some people here for whom it’s easier (and the amount of time the lightsaber spends on screen between the throne room and the KoR fight isn’t much longer than the amount of screen time Leia’s saber got).
So if anyone else is interested in actually doing this I’d love to know.

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#1538949
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Jar Jar Bricks said:

For my “sign in” slot I’d ideally like to have AI Benicio Del Toro say the following: “Libertine, standing by. Living free, joining up!”

The Libertine is the ship DJ and gang stole in TLJ and I’d love to see some redemption for his character in this film even if its more of an easter egg. The second part is the inverse of his signature phrase: “Live free, don’t join.”

Speaking of characters getting redemption via cameos, would it be too over-the-top to suggest that Jar Jar himself showed up at the battle? Cause he has a lot of dialogue from Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and I think it could be a fun easter egg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQUV8jXFy-Y&ab_channel=Zenger
When the fleet first shows up he could say “Jar Jar Binks here to helps” (from 0:40) and then maybe when a Star Destroyer blows up he could say “Meesa good at dis!” (from 1:59).

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#1527698
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<strong>The Mandalorian</strong> - a general discussion thread - * <em><strong>SPOILERS</strong></em> *
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I thought episode 2 was pretty good. The pacing was weird when it started to focus on Bo-Katan but I liked seeing Grogu do some stuff on his own - it actually reminded me a lot of the game Stray. Also that ending did a way better job getting me excited for the rest of the season than episode 1’s did.

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#1520598
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Worst Edit Ideas
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I’m torn between liking this one and hating it: In the flashbacks of TLJ, Luke isn’t shown trying to kill Ben with a lightsaber, instead he appears to be trying to smother Ben with a pillow. Luke then explains he had a vision of Ben hiding some forbidden artifact under his pillow so he went to investigate and that’s why he was holding the pillow (there was no artifact, it’s implied the vision was sent to him by Palpatine).

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#1497010
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TROS Expanded - The Movie based on the Book based on the Movie (WIP)
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For as long as the movie has existed, I’ve wanted to see an extended cut of The Rise of Skywalker.
Though there have been several fan edits that improve the movie’s pacing, and several that incorporate fan-made or behind-the-scenes shots, I haven’t seen anyone try to make an edit that is purely additive. That’s what I aim to do here; and, to keep it canon-compliant, I’m basing it on the film’s novelization, The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition by Rae Carson.
As this edit is still a work-in-progress (I’m only up to Pasanna), I don’t have a complete list of changes, but the rules I’ve set for myself are as follows:

  1. Add as much to the movie as possible, as long as it doesn’t look obviously fake or contradict the book.
  2. Change the order of events in the film to match the order of events in the book, unless doing so creates an obvious continuity error.
  3. Do not remove anything from the movie unless it’s not in the book.

The sources I’m using to extend the movie include:

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#1455504
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Star Wars: <strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> Redux Ideas thread
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For anyone interested in opening the movie with Kylo’s vision I altered the Star Destroyer Vehicle Flythroughs opening to start from a freeze frame so that it can more easily be placed after a title crawl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ3zs6vK7WA

Also, sorry to be pedantic but “Bounty Hunter Pursuit” was the name of the Lego set (and later, level in Lego Star Wars TCS) based on that AOTC scene; the song itself is “Zam the Assassin/Chase Through Coruscant.” While there is a song on the soundtrack called “Bounty Hunter’s Pursuit” it’s what plays during the asteroid field chase.

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#1455274
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Star Wars: <strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> Redux Ideas thread
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I just noticed that in the book, Palpatine’s line “Your master, Luke Skywalker, was saved by his father. The only family you have here is me” is actually “I’ve made this very proposal before. But on that unfortunate day Luke Skywalker had his father to save him. You do not.” And I was thinking, because he says the line “I’ve died before” earlier in the movie, would it be too hard to mix together the rest of the sentence, or something close to it? Because not only do I like this version better, but if we could then it would be possible to remove Rey saying “my parents were strong, they saved me from you” and still have the conversation flow rather naturally. It would go something like:

R: All you want is for me to hate but I won’t. Not even you.
P: I’ve made this proposal before. On that day, Luke Skywalker was saved by his father. The only family you have here… is me.

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#1453622
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Resource Thread: Isolating Music and Voices in Star Wars
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It’s not working. I tried it with the Rise of Skywalker soundtrack but couldn’t get it to sync up, so I tried use a bit of audio from The Last Jedi and then that same bit of audio (2:00:01 - 2:05:46) from the score-only version of the movie. That also didn’t work, I think because the sound is mixed differently so the music is at different amplitudes in the movie?